Historical place archive

North Pole in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at North Pole in Great Britain. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

1 records1 event labels1 people1831–1831

Historical events in North Pole

1831

1 June 1831
Discovery of Magnetic Pole
James Clark Ross · Exploration and Discovery

Plants a union jack to mark the exact spot of the magnetic north pole

Provenance

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